House Rejects Amendments to the Employee Free Choice Act

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/03/01/house-rejects-amendments-to-the-employee-free
-choice-act/

House Rejects Amendments to the Employee Free Choice Act

by James Parks, Mar 1, 2007

The House rejected Republican efforts to weaken the Employee Free Choice Act. Three amendments were rejected, beginning with Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) effort to stop the legal practice called “salting”—union workers hiring on at a nonunion worksite and encouraging employees to join a union.

Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) said the King amendment takes a breath-taking departure from the nation’s laws by allowing employers to discriminate against someone on the basis of union membership. He said America’s laws protect against discrimination and the amendment would fly in the face of decades of legislation protecting the rights of individuals.

The second amendment, offered by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), would establish a “do-not-contact” list, which would prohibit union members from contacting workers about joining a union.

Andrews said the amendment may be unconstitutional. If union organizers coerce or intimidate workers into signing cards, he said, that is now and will remain illegal. Under the language of the amendment, he said, even taking out a newspaper ad to promote a union would be illegal.

FULL story at link.

[Donnachaidh]

1. This needs to get OUT on the MSM and STAY THERE until 2008

REMIND people that the republicans are ANTI-UNION.

[Parche]

2. VIRGINIA FAUX

Fox and King
Tweedledumb and Tweedlestupid

[INdemo]

3. I'm not understanding this completely....So does this rejected amendment

mean that "salting" is still allowed?

[youngdem]

4. Yes.